The second day of the Johannesburg Test between India and South Africa witnessed the captain of both the teams, KL Rahul and Dean Elgar — getting engaged in verbal banter. The incident took place while a visibly unhappy Rahul was spotted making his way back after his dismissal of a Marco Jansen delivery in the second innings. Batting on eight, the stand-in India skipper nicked it to the second slip as Aiden Markram dived in front to take a low catch.

KL Rahul wasn’t interested in walking off the field as he asked the on-field umpires decided to upstairs in making a decision. Replays gave an impression of the ball being under Markram’s palms and it was enough to convince the third umpire. After being dismissed, Rahul had some heated exchange of words with Emgar as he walked off the field shaking his head in disbelief. A similar incident had happened earlier on Day 2 when Rassie Van der Dussen was adjudged caught behind by the on-field umpire at the stroke of lunch.

Here is the video of the incident:

https://twitter.com/mscmedia2/status/1478392452121866241?s=20

There were questions on the legality of the catch taken by wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant. However, there was no conclusive evidence of whether the ball bounced before going into the wicketkeeping gloves. Law 2.12 requires conclusive evidence for an on-field decision to be overturned. The law reads: “An umpire may alter any decision provided that such alteration is made promptly. This apart, an umpire’s decision, once made, is final.”

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India suffered their first blow in the form of KL Rahul in the third and final session of the day. Mayank Agarwal also departed for 23, leaving the tourists reeling at 44/2 in the second innings. Earlier in the day, Shardul Thakur managed to scalp as many as seven wickets to bundle out South Africa for 229 in their first innings.

Shardul Thakur recorded figures of seven for 61 with the ball and surpassed Harbhajan Singh in the list of best innings figures among the Indian bowlers in South Africa. Shardul first removed Elgar on 28 and went on to dismiss Keegan Petersen and Rassie van der Dussen in the opening session.

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The 30-year-old all-rounder then got the crucial wicket of Kyle Verreynne, Temba Bavuma, Marco Jansen, and Lungi Ngidi in the second session. Apart from Thakur, Mohammed Shami picked a couple of more wickets while Jasprit Bumrah scalped one to complete India’s turnaround on Day 2. South Africa took a slender lead of 27 runs.

Here is how the fans reacted to the incident:

That catch against #KLRahul was not at all clean. Can't remember the last time i saw such partial and biased umpiring as well as commentating. #MikeHaysman seriously needs a life and stop cribbing about every decision that goes against SA. #INDvSA

— saurabh sharma (@_Saurcasm_) January 4, 2022

https://twitter.com/shail_shubham/status/1478312938255486977?s=20

https://twitter.com/Sun_underVI/status/1478389475910819842?s=20

#KLRahul must have told the South African players that the whole nation will be ashamed of them for claiming that catch against him. Absolutely disgusting on their part to wrongly claim his wicket.#INDvsSA #testcricket #ICC #BCCI

— Rockyfficial aka MrNobody (@Rockyfficial) January 4, 2022